Word: marios
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...later, The Death of Artemio Cruz, a Faulknerian tour de force narrated by a man during the final hours of his life, propelled Fuentes into the front ranks of "el Boom," the globally acclaimed wave of Latin American authors that included Colombia's Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Peru's Mario Vargas Llosa...
Although it clearly has its merits, pop patriotism does run the risk of trivializing the electoral process. What, for example, would have been the effect if Comedy Central had provided commentary when Mario Cuomo made his eloquent "family of America" speech at the 1984 Democratic Convention? Can it really be considered progress if youths vote for a candidate solely because Michael Bolton says they should? People need reasons beyond that, argues Curtis Gans, who heads the Committee for the Study of the American Electorate. "If we used that star quality to help kids figure out something they'd like...
While the Kennedy School is facing internalchanges, the institution is gearing up for apolitically exciting year. The school played hostto a number of past, present and possibly futurepresidential candidates, in cluding U.S. Sen.Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 (D-Mass), ArkansasGovernor and Democratic presidential candidateBill Clinton and New York Governor Mario Cuomo...
Duncan, who said he attends many Forum speeches, said that a many Forum speeches, said that a crowdedaudience had been a problem in the past, citingspeeches by Mario M. Cuomo, Walter Cronkite andthe president of the Ukraine as examples...
...Bush is, so to speak, a less vivid absence than Reagan. He seems to be away a lot, either physically or morally. When he does come home to try to focus, Americans almost wish he would not: He has been going too often into his '50s flustery, dufus mode. Mario Cuomo is the only Democrat who looks and talks like a father, but he refused to accept the role, and that amounted to abandonment. He left the Democratic race to the sibling rivals (Clinton, Kerrey, Brown, Tsongas and so on), who have spent the season gouging one another...